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	Cherokee language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cherokee only has one labial consonant, /m/, which is relatively new to the language, unless one counts the Cherokee w a labial instead of a velar.
		Cherokee is represented in Unicode, in the character range U+13A0 to U+13F4.
		Cherokee is also supported by free fonts found at languagegeek.com, and the shareware fonts Code2000 and Everson Mono.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cherokee_language#Syllabary (646 words)

	MSN Encarta - Cherokee
		Cherokee, Native Americans of the Iroquoian language family and of the Southeast culture area.
		Surplus lands not assigned to Cherokee individuals were parceled out by the federal government, and in 1891 the tribe’s western land extension, the Cherokee Strip or Cherokee Outlet, was sold to the United States; in 1893 it was opened, mostly to non-Indian settlers, in a famous land run.
		Cherokee families typically had two dwellings: rectangular summer houses with cane and clay walls and bark or thatch roofs, and cone-shaped winter houses with pole frames and brushwork covered by mud or clay.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577754/Cherokee.html (1388 words)

	Cherokee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Cherokee were in the dubious position of fighting the pro-British Iroquois and the pro-French Algonquin at the same time, but they held their own, despite devastating smallpox epidemics in 1738 and 1753 which killed almost half of them.
		Although the Cherokee signed a treaty in 1754 confirming their alliance and allowing the construction of British forts in their territory to defend the colonies, the lingering suspicion remained they were sympathetic to the French.
		Almost 100 Cherokee accompanying a Virginia expedition against the Ohio Shawnee lost their provisions while crossing a river and were abandoned by their white "allies." Angry at this treatment, the Cherokee helped themselves to some of the Virginians' horses and were attacked.
	www.tolatsga.org /Cherokee1.html (3073 words)

	Sequoyah - Inventor of the Cherokee Syllabary
		In 1824 the Cherokee National Council at New Echota, Georgia, honored him with a silver medal, which he proudly wore for the rest of his life, and later with an annuity of $300, which his widow continued to receive after his death.
		According to legend, the primeval Cherokee written language was lost as the tribe migrated across the continent and their numbers dwindled according to living conditions and influences of more numerous neighbors.
		The Cherokee language split into two main dialects after the Cherokee began voluntary migration west to Arkansas prior to the Revolutionary War and continuing up to the Removals (Trail of Tears) in 1838-1839.
	www.manataka.org /page81.html (1259 words)

	Cherokees of California
		Cherokee is a branch of the Iroquoian language family, related to Cayuga, Seneca, Onondega, Wyandot-Huron, Tuscarora, Oneida and Mohawk.
		In the winter of 1838, the Cherokee Nation was forcibly removed from what was left of their original lands in the East.
		The Cherokee alphabet is a syllabary of 85 characters in which each letter in a word stands for a whole syllable.
	www.powersource.com /cocinc/language/history.htm (706 words)

	Cherokee language, sillabary, Sequoyah
		His name Si-kwo-yi is Cherokee for "pig's foot," which leads many to believe that he was born with a ‘club foot’, or seriously injured later in life.
		By 1825 much of the Bible and numerous hymns had been translated into Cherokee, it was only a matter of months before thousands of Cherokees were literate, able to read and write their own language.
		After the Cherokee Nation adopted the syllabary, Sequoyah was hailed as a genius and honored by the Cherokee Nation.
	www.cherokeebyblood.com /sequoyah.htm (1115 words)

	Surveying Tribal Members About the Echota Cherokee Language
		The primary purpose of this survey is to assess the current knowledge and opinions of the Echota Cherokee of Alabama about their ancestral language, and to investigate the current status of the Cherokee language in terms of its use among the Echota.
		This was unexpected due to the early acculturation of the Cherokee, the degree of intermarriage with whites, and the long time span within which those who remained in Alabama were compelled to deny their heritage.
		All of the respondents agree or strongly agree that the Cherokee language is worth learning and that the tribe should work hard to save it, in spite of the fact that 57% felt that Cherokee is a difficult language to learn.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/TIL_19.html (3386 words)

	The Cherokee Phoenix
		The Cherokee Phoenix, which is still published today, acted as the official voice of the government for the seven years that it was published from an office in the capital city of New Echota.
		Type was cast in the Cherokee language, a printer was hired, and a printing press and other equipment was sent to the Cherokee capital of New Echota.
		Cherokee still living nearby in May, 1838 were rounded up and kept in Fort Wool (more), finally marching off on the "Trail of Tears." Then, for more than 100 years the property lay dormant and nature took its course.
	ngeorgia.com /history/phoenix.html (1273 words)

	Native American, the Cherokee
		Cherokee comes from the Creek word "Chelokee" which means "people of a different speech." Although the Cherokee language is Iroquoian it differs significantly from the other Iroquoian languages.
		In the 1670s the Cherokee population was estimated at 50,000 but a series of smallpox epidemics in the early to mid 1700s cut this in half.
		These are: the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the United Keetoowah Band, both in Oklahoma, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee, in North Carolina.
	www.merceronline.com /Native/native03.htm (550 words)

	Cherokee Language and the Cherokee Indian Culture (Tsalagi, Tsa-la-gi, Aniyunwiya)
		History: The best-known episode in Cherokee history was also the worst: the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation of the Cherokee people from their ancestral home in the southeast to Oklahoma.
		Fifteen to twenty thousand Cherokee and their Indian neighbors (Choctaw, Muskogee, and others) were rounded up and herded to Oklahoma in the winter of 1838-1839.
		Cherokee names, both traditional and modern, and their pronunciation.
	www.native-languages.org /cherokee.htm (754 words)

	Cherokee Dictionary, Cherokee Fonts, Cherokee Learn, Cherokee Movies/Videos, Cherokee Reference, Cherokee Software - ...
		Cherokee is spoken by upwards of 10,000 peop1e, the vast majority living near the town of Tahlequah in northeastern Oklahoma.
		The Cherokee language is of the Iroquoian family, most closely related to Seneca, Mohawk, and Oneida.
		The system was quickly mastered by thousands of Cherokees and within three years a newspaper began to be published, and a constitution for the Cherokee Nation was drawn up in the Cherokee language.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Cherokee.htm (422 words)

	Cherokee, Cherokee Ancestry, Cherokee Language, Native American Practices & Rituals . . .
		My sister Ahinawake was also born in Cherokee, NC and currently lives on the reservation, as well as, the majority of my mom's family with the exception of very few family members.
		Cherokee society is matrilineal and when Cherokee names are given to a newborn, an elder (typically the grandmother) of the Cherokee family give the name to the child.
		The Eastern Band of Cherokee's is headquartered in Cherokee, North Carolina with approximately 12,000 tribal members and is the smallest of the three.
	www.drstandley.com /nativeamerican_index.shtml (1743 words)

	Cherokee Companion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We do know, however, that the Cherokees had developed a complex civilization, with their own language, and a well-balanced system of local (city) governments, each comprised of seven clans, and requiring the participation of both men and women in order to function.
		One band of Cherokees, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is at the time of this writing, the second-largest "recognized tribe" in the United States.
		The written form of the Cherokee language was developed by Sequoyah, who completed his twelve-year work and gave it to the Cherokee people in 1821.
	www.intertribal.net /NAT/Cherokee/WebPgCC1/CC1home.htm (1226 words)

	Tsalagi (Cherokee) Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Finally the whole country, which the Tsalagi (Cherokees) and their fathers have so long occupied, will be demanded, and the remnant of the Ani Yvwiya, The Real People, once so great and formidable, will be compelled to seek refuge in some distant wilderness.
		The Tsalagi (Cherokee) are a nation of North American Indians that formerly inhabited the mountainous region of the western Carolinas, northern Georgia, and eastern Tennessee.
		The Tsalagi (Cherokee) Language (Font) is placed here for the furtherment of research into the native language of the Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation of North America.
	www.indians.org /welker/cherokee.htm (951 words)

	CNN.com - Cherokee tribe tries to save dying language - Sep. 24, 2003
		By immersing the youngsters in the language of their ancestors, tribal leaders are hoping to save one of the many endangered American Indian tongues.
		The father of Cherokee Nation Chief Chad Smith was punished for speaking Cherokee at Sequoyah High School, located at the seat of Cherokee government in Tahlequah.
		Her office is adorned with Cherokee words and pronunciations posted on objects like the telephone and her desk chair.
	www.cnn.com /2003/EDUCATION/09/24/cherokee.kindergarten.ap (701 words)

	Cherokee Language Programs @ Buffalo Trails - Cherokee Language Menu
		Cherokee language programs to all people who were denied their language and for all others who want to learn
		A Cherokee language study in booklet form and a 60-minute CD containing vocabulary with sentences and phrases of common usage.
		The Cherokee symbols and their phonetic tones are shown by pictures, serving as the keys to quick recollection.
	www.native-americans.org /languages/language-cherokee.htm (3139 words)

	Cherokee Language programs, historical and cultural materials: books and videos. Various Indian Peoples Publishing Co. ...
		For the first time, the Cherokee people have a point of reference for the language - much of which was lost during the removal period.
		Researched for over three years and reading from unpublished works on the Cherokee language, this book has been compiled from what is remembered.
		Listening to the voices of Cherokee speakers and following the exercises, you'll learn more about the Cherokee verb, Set A and Set B pronoun prefixes, subject-object prefixes, family and relationship terms, body parts, both singular and plural, many useful phrases, verb conjugations, and translation exercises with poetry by Robert Conley.
	www.nativelanguages.com /_private/cherokee.html (2037 words)

	Sequoyah's Talking Leaves
		Realizing a key to development of the Cherokee Nation was a written language, Sequoyah began work on a graphic representation of the Cherokee language.
		Sequoyah's written language was not the first example of the concept.
		The leaders of the tribe felt that this written language was the work of the devil, and to force him to stop they ordered Ridge to remove the tops of his fingers.
	ngeorgia.com /history/alphabet.html (533 words)

	Cherokee Language Computer Software @ Buffalo Trails - Computer Software
		Sequoyah for Windows is an interactive program with audio in Cherokee for learning to pronounce the syllabary and learn words and phrases in the Cherokee language.
		This Cherokee language program on five audio cassettes takes you from the Introduction to Cherokee language program through five intermediate program modules in one.
		Learn more about the Cherokee verb, Set A and Set B pronoun prefixes, subject-object prefixes, family and relationship terms, body parts conjugations both singular and plural, many useful phrases, verb conjugations, and translation exercises with poetry by Robert Conley.
	www.native-americans.org /languages/language-computer.htm (1326 words)

	Sequoyah/Cherokee Script
		Sequoyah, or George Guess (or Gist), was born the son of a Virginian fur trader and the daughter of a Cherokee chief in the village of Tuskegee, Tennessee.
		He and his mother were abondoned by the father, and his mother left to raise him herself.
		The script is a syllabary composed of 85 unique glyphs, each representing a distinct phonetic component of the Cherokee language.
	www.tiro.com /syllabics/Cherokee/Sequoyah.html (229 words)

	Raven's Tsalagi (Cherokee) site, offering language information
		The most proper name for the Cherokee people would actually be Ani-Yunwiya, which means “The Principle People” in the Cherokee language.
		Cherokee is the way the invaders chose to pronounce Tsalagi.
		The Cherokee language itself does not use the ch sound or the r sound as they appear in English.
	public.csusm.edu /raven/cherokee.dir/cherokee.html (292 words)

	American Indian Language- Sioux, Cherokee, Commanche & Other Indian Language Resources
		In July of 1993, this organization was formed with the vision of reviving the Comanche language into a "living language" once again.
		Information about the locations of the world's living languages and have created a set of maps which include most of the countries of the world.
		These color language maps identify and display various Native American languages and where they are spoken.
	www.crazycrow.com /links_nativeam/language.php (590 words)

	Joan Sarah Touzet - Freeware Cherokee Font Information
		It was thirteen years ago today that, in the midst of studying Cherokee antiquities at university, I received a grant to develop a computerized Cherokee font.
		Renee is 3/4 Cherokee and 1/4 French, and was born and raised in the Eastern Cherokee reservation in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.
		The font is also dedicated to all of the Cherokees, with any percentage of red blood, who continue to strive to reclaim their nearly lost language.
	www.atypical.net /Cherokee.html (2426 words)

	Tsalagi Language Resources
		At 101language.com you'll find language courses, a video course in Cherokee basket making and even some PC software to help with learning Cherokee.
		Here is a computerized Cherokee language tutorial, all done with web pages.
		The Cherokee language is a branch of the Iroquoian language, as are several other languages.
	public.csusm.edu /raven/cherokee.dir/cher1.html (407 words)

	Online Cherokee language lessons are available at www (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		language with an innovative written syllabary invented by a Cherokee scholar, spoken by about 22,000 people primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
		They learned the Creek word for Cherokee, but not the Creek word for themselves.) Anyway, our original name for ourselves was Aniyunwiya, but Cherokee is fine too (though we say it Tsalagi—there’s no R in our language).
		The Cherokee had been one of the most acculturated of Indian societies—an urban, Christian, agricultural, largely intermarried people who supported the United States against other tribes.
	www.cherokeeshouston.org /online_cherokee_language_lessons.htm (668 words)

	English/Cherokee Dictionary
		This is the official cherokee font of the Cherokee Nation and can be downloaded off their website (see the link in the table header of the output.
		The Cherokee alphabet is written in the syllabary form.
		In Western Cherokee the syllables are usually pronounced as the "j" in jaw.
	www.wehali.com /tsalagi (581 words)

	NATIVE NASHVILLE ONLINE NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE TUTOR - TSALAGI (CHEROKEE)
		"Cherokee" is the English language term for the Native people who originally called themselves Ani Yunwiya, the Principal People.
		The word "Cherokee" is a variation of the word "Tsalagi", which is the term the Cherokee people commonly use to identify themselves today.
		Cherokee is an Iroquoian language, but the relationship is a distant one and it doesn't bear a close resemblance to other Iroquois languages.
	www.nativenashville.com /tutor_tsalagi.htm (353 words)

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